The Morrison-Knudsen Placer is a gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,201 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 6,201 Feet (1,890 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.755, -116.02670
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Morrison-Knudsen Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Morrison-Knudsen Placer
Secondary: Van Duzer Creek Placers
Secondary: Poorman Group
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Mountain City District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Patented
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Placer
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Payette Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE POORMAN GROUP IS COMPRISED OF THE NOME, POORMAN, GREEN HORN, KING FISHER, AND MIDNIGHT PLACER CLAIMS. VAN DUZER AND LIME CREEK WERE FIRST MINED WITH HYDRAULIC GIANTS (SMALL SCALE) AND 40-50 YEARS LATER, DURING WW II, IT WAS DREDGED BY MORRISON-KNUDSEN CO. THE POINT OF REFERENCE FOR THIS PROPERTY IS PLACED AT THE JUNCTION OF LIME AND VAN DUZER CREEKS, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE PATENTED CLAIM GROUP.
References
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 18, 1932.
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETEIN 30.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 76-56, 1956, P. 120.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1356, 1981, P. 21.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 17-92, 1992, PLATE 1,
Reference (Deposit): NO. 37; PLATE 3, NO. 9.
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
